27th AEMI Conference – Husum, 5-7 October 2017

“At Home or Alienated” – Migrants and receiving countries between integration and parallel-society, between ‘culture of welcome’ and xenophobia

The Association of European Migration Institutions (AEMI) together with its local partner organization the Nordfriisk Instituut and with the Nordfriesland Museum Nissenhaus presents the 27th AEMI-CONFERENCE which will be held in Husum, North Frisia, Germany from Thursday, 5th to Saturday, 7th October 2017. The conference will deal with, and reflect on the terms, migration, and integration e.g. in the social, economic, or cultural sphere, as well as segregation, nativism and xenophobia in the past and present.

Conference Program

27th AEMI CONFERENCE

“At Home or Alienated” – Migrants and receiving countries between integration and parallel-society, between ‘culture of welcome’ and xenophobia

09:15 – 09:45 Opening lecture Thomas Steensen, Director Nordfriisk Instituut: What is a Frisian and how to become one – an inclusive approach to minority affiliation.

10:00 – 11.00 Part I, Session 1: European Emigration to the United States I

Chair: Marie-Charlotte Le Bailly, Red Star Line Museum, Antwerp

10:00 – 10:15 Maria Jarlsdotter Enckell, Åland Islands Emigrant Institute Going West North-West to the Pacific North 1817-1867. Under the Loupe: the Questioned Ethnicity of 844 Documented Finnish Seamen, Engaged in Russian American Company Service, sailing yearly as clockwork past the North Frisian Islands to and from Kronstadt.

11:15 – 11:30 Michalina Petelska, University of Gdansk, cooperation with The Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences A scientific melting pot. Polish immigrants and scientists in New York in the 19th and the first half of 20th century.

11:30 – 11:45 Imanol Galdos Irazabal, Assistant Manager in the department of culture of the city council of Donostia Boise: A Model of a Welcoming City.

11:45 – 12:00 Christina A. Ziegler-McPherson, historian of American immigration policy and assimilation theory Cautionary Lessons from the Americanization movement of the early 20th century.

13:45 – 14:00 Vinzenz Kratzer, PhD candidate at the European University in Frankfurt/Oder History of state migration research in Germany.

14:00 – 14:15 Discussion 14:15 – 14.30 Break

14: 30 – 16:00 Part II, Session 2: Past and present migratory issues

Chair: Adam Walaszek, Jagiellonian University, Crakow

14:30 – 14:45 Dieter Bacher, PhD candidate at the University of Graz, Anne Unterwurzacher, senior postdoc-researcher at the Center for Migration Research in St. Pölten/Lower Austria Similarities and differences. Challenges and possibilities of linking research of past and present migration phenomena and their context as a chance for „evidence-based policy“.

15:00 – 15:15 Rafał Raczyński, research officer in Emigration Museum in Gdynia and assistant professor at the Pomeranian University in Słupsk The perception of immigrants from EU countries in British society in the context of Brexit.

15:15 – 15.30 Agnieszka Kulesa, PhD candidate at the Warsaw School of Economics, researcher at the Centre for French Culture and Francophone Studies, University of Warsaw; Nicolas Maslowski, director of the Centre for French Culture and Francophone Studies, University of Warsaw Anti-racism and anti-discrimination approaches in migration policies of the Central European states: the state of play and challenges for the future.

16:30 – 16:45 Karen Mooeskops, Marie-Charlotte Le Bailly, Red Star Line Museum in Antwerp A Safe Home in Belgium (1950-today). Refugee children and their family history.

16:45 – 17:00 María González Blanco, PhD at the University of Santiago de Compostela Vicente Peña Saavedra, Senior Lecturer of History of Education at the University of Santiago de Compostela Possibilities and limits of the statistical sources for the study of educational and cultural profiles of Spaniards in current emigration.

17:00 – 17:15 Laurence Prempain, associate researcher at the University Lyon Evolution of the perception of German Jewish refugees in France: from “Victims” to “Undesirable” (1933-1938).

09:15 – 09:30 Benan Oregi Iñurrieta, Officer for the Basque Community Abroad; Gorka Alvarez Aranburu, Director for the Basque Community Abroad A home or a country? What did Basque emigrants leave behind?

09:30 – 09:45 Edurne Arostegui, PhD student at the University of the Basque Country and at the University of Nevada, Reno Basque Portraits of the American West: Making Nevada Home.

09:45 – 10:00 Discussion 10:00 – 10:15 Break

10:15 – 11:15 Session 2:

Chair: Gorka Alvarez Aranburu, Director for the Basque Community Abroad

10:45 – 11:00 Sarah Clément, Generiques, Paris, Jean-Barthelemi Debost, Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration, Paris The built heritage of migrations in Europe – different cases study in France. What about the migrations in the European year of cultural heritage in 2018 ?

11:30 – 11:45 Solange Maslowski, senior French researcher at the Center for Comparative Law of the Faculty of law of Charles University in Prague Mahoran and Roma migrants, second-class Union citizens?